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2001: A Space Odyssey

Stanley Kubricks cinematic milestone was in every sense an experimental film, harnessing the widescreen, epic format for an intensely metaphysical, ultimately very personal use. 2001 was conceived less as a science fiction narrative than as an experience in space and time. As a re-creation of the dimensions of outer spacetaking us beyond deep focus into infinite focusit has never been matched. Neither has the grace with which Kubricks pristine visuals literally waltz through several millennia of evolution. The films most memorable character, the computer Hal, is the embodiment of evolutionary anxiety as we leave the mechanical age for the digital one.